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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Previous knowledge. Where can I find what I need?

2008-12-22 by Roy Harrington

The raw curves are unlinearized.   I don“t know what you mean as
not satisfactory.  Try the other pk ones.  If you really need to do your
own start with the existing ones.

Roy

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM, rabanito <rabsanito@...> wrote:
> I have an Epson 2880. For starters I wanted to use QTR with Premium
> Glossy Photo paper. Using the settings "optimized B&W Photo" from
> Photoshop I get satisfactory results.
> Following the user's guide I looked for curves for this paper but
> found none. I tried then UCpk-raw-neut (both curves) and printed. The
> result is not satisfactory so I thought I could try to create my own
> curves...
> Well I printed the InkSeparation.tif file, Ink Slider to the right(not
> to the left) so as to get the value 100 and got a age with all 8 inks.
> Now I'm stuck. I don't understand what I'm supposed to look for. "the
> patch where it appears that all paper is covered with ink" Does this
> mean the patches where one cannot distinguish the fine lines? Or where
> one cannot distinguish a patch from the next? I'm using a loupe.
> The problem is that it doesn't look like I understand what I am doing
> at all. Some parts of the user's guide are elementary, others seem to
> speak to persons with a previous knowledge (in printing techniques) I
> don't possess :-(
> Is there anything I can do/read?
>
> Thank you for any help
>
> Jorge
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